Rating: Summary: Do Not Purchase - Major Flaws Review: I unfortunately purchased the Delorme USA 2004 Handheld Street Atlas. I can't believe Delorme would release such a third rate product.What is good. The maps are ok, some pretty good POI, but I found them to not be placed correctly on the maps, in some cases up to a mile off. What is bad. Quite a bit. The maps are slow to load, you can't re-calculate a route if you take a wrong turn (which makes the program pretty much completely worthless), Locations can't be saved on the PDA, so you need to re-type them every time you want to make a route, the app does not take advantage of the Clie long screen. Street level detail is lacking when zoomed in at the lowest level - simple things like street names. When traveling, the cursor that indicates your location is usually off - this once again depends on finding the correct zoom level. Door to Door directions is a bit misleading if you ask me. Searching is horrendous. It does not allow for saved searches, so once again, you need to type stuff over again and again. I hope the 30 day guarantee still applies. I wish I read these reviews before I bought this.
Rating: Summary: pitiful Review: I used to like DeLorme's products. THis one is poor at best as far as being functional. GPS takes forever to locate, map loading from desktop to PDA is not as easy as the interface would have you believe, and you cannot adjust zoom level manually.
As poor as the Pharos / Ostia package is, it beats DeLorme in functionality. I wish it had the POI and address info that DeLorme has ... better yet, I wish DeLorme had thier functionality. I am returning the DeLorme product in the morning.
Rating: Summary: A flawed product Review: I'm returning this product. I couldn't get out the starting gate because of poor documentation. It was very unclear how to transfer maps from a PC to a Palm T3 SD Card. Other reviewers point out that you can't do address lookups on the PDA which limits the usefullness of this package. I was planning to use this software with Delorme's Earthmate GPS receiver. I'm now looking at the TomTom T3 GPS offering instead.
Rating: Summary: Stick with SA9 or lower Review: It works like no other program you have ever used. Get ready to re-learn even something as simple as opening and saving a file. The program is slow. The maps lack detail until you are zoomed in nearly all the way. Printing is not as good as SA7. All in all it is a big step backwards. Don't Bother.
Rating: Summary: Not the worst, could use improvement Review: Most of the other reviewers comments are pretty accurate, However, there is a way to zoom, at least on my Palm m515. It's not intuitive, in fact I only found out after bothering to read thru the online Help text, but you zoom in and out using the Palm's UP and DOWN buttons. At higher resolutions street names do appear on-screen. I do agree that the user interface could be more intuitive, and that comment applies to both the desktop and palmtop sides of the program. That said, this software certainly beats completely useless programs such as Rand McNally's Street Finder, which came as free software with my Navman GPS unit, and is worth every penny I paid for it.
Rating: Summary: It's so un-user-friendly Review: This is the second mapping software I bought. The first one is Pharos GPS for pocket pc, it was a waste of money, very hard to use and the map disappears on its own. This one is not much better either. I'm returning it.
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